CAMPAIGNS
KITCHEN TABLE PROJECT
For me, an integral part of business is to find ways to ensure that the community we work in somehow benefits from our success. This is not some sort of pious altruism or po-faced preachiness. As well as a food writer and cook I am involved with a community interest company called Agency East. Our [...]
FOODCYCLE
I am so delighted to support the work of FoodCycle a social enterprise challenging the major issues of food waste in the UK. FoodCycle combines volunteers, surplus food and a free kitchen space to create nutritious meals and positive social change in the community. FoodCycle works hard to empower local communities to set up groups [...]
MAGIC LUNCH
The way I figure it, is this. Almost 4million kids in the UK live below the poverty line and are not eating proper, nourishing food. 1 in 4 children get only 1 hot meal a day. And that is often the free school lunch to which they are entitled. But with at least as many [...]
FOOD FROM THE HEART
Cooking is the only healthy way to eat
Cooking is a basic human instinct. We’ve been eating, chopping, shaping, flavouring, enticing ingredients into something delicious since time began. But as the way many of us live has changed, the basic skills we require to cook, are no longer valued and it’s often easier to let others take control of what we eat.
DINING
THE TASTE OF SUCCESS
For three nights 22-25 May, as the final curtain closes on our wonderful time at the Garage, we are hosting three of London's hottest rising pop-up restaurateur [...]
READING
COOKING WITHOUT RECIPES
Do you envy people who seem to be able to cook with effortless ease. Have you ever wanted to cook like your mother, bringing an endless variety of meals to the [...]
COOKING
MARMALADE, BAKED HAM, DUCK CONFIT
Something about January marks the midset of winter. Cold. Wet. Miserable. Looking forward now to that wonderful March day when the light evenings return. But in [...]
EATING
THE DISHES WE COOK
Quite often I am asked what sort of food my kitchen partner, Mary and I cook at PipsDish. After all how would you know what to expect from one of my pop-ups? It [...]
CAMPAIGNS
KITCHEN TABLE PROJECT
For me, an integral part of business is to find ways to ensure that the community we work in somehow benefits from our success. This is not some sort of pious a [...]
Follow me on Twitter
Facebook me
Updates by RSS
